Best Rights Act Quotes
39 Rights Act quotes by 29 unique authors
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I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
— Ronald Reagan
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From 1965 to 1967, my dad, Jack Gilligan, served in Congress and helped pass landmark laws like the Voting Rights Act.
— Kathleen Sebelius
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Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been…
— Andrew Young
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms.…
— Adam Selzer
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of…
— Aberjhani
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to…
— Aberjhani
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It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was…
— Henry Rollins
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.
— Henry Rollins
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On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the…
— Thomas Perez
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It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights Act…
— Thomas Perez
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Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and women should be…
— John Yarmuth
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It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
— Bobby Scott
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No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
— Rand Paul
Who Wrote These Rights Act Quotes
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